Acts 18:25

Acts 18:25 ou-toj h=n kathchme,noj th.n o`do.n tou/ kuri,ou

The Western addition (D it^gig) of evn th|/ patri,di after kathchme,noj (“who had been instructed in his own country in the word of the Lord”) implies that Christianity had reached Alexandria by about A.D. 50. Whether the statement of the Western reviser depends upon personal knowledge or is based on inference, the implication of the statement no doubt accords with historical fact.

The reading to.n lo,gon (D 35 36^a 94 142 242 307 309 323 429 431) instead of th.n o`do,n is, as Ropes declares, “clearly an attempt to make a hard word easier” (ad loc.); the same type of change appears also in ver. Acts 18:26.